Author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created.

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Famous quotes containing the word author:

    “Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)